According to a UN report about contemporary slavery, nearly 50,000 children "work in hazardous conditions in the mining industry" in Peru.
The charges against Granda indicate a crackdown in the U.S. on smugglers capitalizing on the growing worldwide consumption of illegally-mined gold from the Amazon basin, where mobs of laborers use fire hoses and mercury to extract pure gold from toxic pits, according to Bloomberg.
No comments:
Post a Comment